Cambodia 2015

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After 4 hours on the bus, we'll be able to stretch our legs by walking around Phnom Penh.

The former Hemakcheat cinema, now occupied by various squatters...

The Central Market or Phsar Thmey, the new market. Built in 1937 by French architects Jean Desbois and Luis Chauchon, in Art Deco style with its 26-meter high dome.

The essential parking lots where Asia's favorite mode of transport, the scooter, piles up.

A mask to protect against phone viruses...  

On almost all markets we will find them: fried insects. Crickets, larvae, to your taste buds! Not mine anyway...

We let ourselves be tempted by small skewers and some spring rolls.

Our friendly table neighbors.  

Preparation of "nom krourk", rice balls with coconut milk.

On the left, bitter melons (Momordica charantia).

Eggs colored pink or black...

Machine for extracting coconut pulp.

The two towers of Phnom Penh: Canadia Bank and Vattanac Bank...

We arrive on the Riverside Walk Road which runs along the Tonle Sap river and joins the Mekong at the end of this street...

In front of Wat Ounalom pagoda.

Facing the royal palace, a modest portrait of King Norodom Sihamoni...

The royal palace. We will visit it on the last day of the trip.

And to finish the day, a restaurant with a kind of Lok Lak skewer style. Tomorrow we leave the capital to the north to begin our loop around Tonle Sap lake. Back to Phnom Penh in 14 days!